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The answers by DOK and CD Jorgensen found here were -collectively- among the most helpful I found while searching the web on this particular issue! At the risk of being redundant, I'm adding this answer with the goal of being more explicit and of safeguarding the key screenshots from Andrea Montanari's article referenced in DOK's answer. The OP is not alone in his puzzlement about the "missing" management client!!! -) The Management Studio exe is named ssms.exe. Much of the pain that many of us have already experienced. Include Management Tools - Basic.Continue the process from there and

“Select All” to toggle on all of the Shared Features, which should Installation steps until you get to “Feature Selection” and click on Installation Center and then go to Installation > New SQL Server Then go back through the install process asįollows: Double click on SQLEXPRADV_x86_ENU.exe to load the SQL Server Server 2008 applications that also appear in the "Add or Remove Note: You do not need to uninstall any of the other SQL You need to keep going until all instances have been removed and theĪpplication completely disappears from the Add or Remove Programs"ĭialog. Instance at a time and if you have installed more than one instance To delete thatįirst instance, you must go to "Add or Remove Programs" and remove

Installed during installation of the first instance. Much pain and torture I learned that the Management Studio can only be Was installed that did not include the Management Studio. Happened in my case was that I installed Visual Studio 2008 ExpressĪnd during that process a stripped down "Instance" of SQL Server 2008 Installation (same should apply to the w/ Tools version). Install the Management Studio for SQL Server 2008 Express - Advanced Like many others, I spent countless hours trying to figure out how to The 2008 version of the Management Studio is not a stand alone installation and can only be installed as part of the SQL Server 2008 Express with Tools or Advanced installation. It's kind of tricky installing Management Studio.